In many ways, Nancy Zastudil was the inspiration for this series of interviews about sustainable practices. We worked together at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the…
February 2012
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Dr. Francine Carraro, executive director of the Grace Museum in Abilene, has resigned. An expert in early Texas art, she had held the post since September 2008 when she came…
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Art Daily reports that the San Antonio Museum of Art has acquired a really nice woooden Amita Buddha from the late 12th century with funds provided by Lenora and Walter…
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The Hermann Park installation is part of a six-stop US tour that includes New York, Los Angeles, Princeton, NJ, Washington D.C., and Pittsburgh. The 12 monumental bronze heads each weigh…
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Echoing, in diluted form, the debate over the appropriateness of Luis Jimenez’ famous pistol-waving Vaquero, copies of which are sited on Houston’s Northside, and at the Crystal Bridges Museum in…
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If the winters continue to be as warm as this one, scientists say that the vampire bat, scourge of the Mexican cattle industry, could begin to find suitable habitat north…
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An amusing and embarrassing story in today’s NY Times relates how UC Berkeley accidentally sold a carved redwood panel by WPA artist Sargent Johnson for $150 (+tax) from it’s surplus…
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Vidor sculptor Charlie Stagg died yesterday at UTMB in Galveston from burns suffered when he fell into an open fire pit at his eccentric folk-art style glass bottle and cement…
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Vital film document, Come Back, Africa screens at the MFAH. “This film was made secretly in order to portray the true conditions of life in South Africa today. There are…
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For fans of combined boxing/fine arts news coverage, Bart Barry has a piece on 15 rounds.com that critiques both the art Museum of South Texas’ Art of the Dive: Portraits…
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The president’s 2013 “re-election budget” has got my vote: Allen Keckonen of the San Antonio Art Festivals Examiner has waded through the numbers and concludes that last fall’s cuts for…
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The exhibition In the Interest of Time presents three projects by the Brooklyn collaborative Smudge Studio, comprised of artists Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse. Their primary subject is the landscape,…
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There is a proliferation of exhibitions featuring abstract painting in Houston right now. Gallery Sonja Roesch, Sicardi Gallery, and Hiram Butler Gallery have group exhibitions featuring abstract painters, and there…
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Scott Sustek’s “Working Cowboy”, an over-life-sized sculpture of a waving man with a rope and saddle, was installed outside San Angelo on highway 87 near the intersection of Bryant Boulevard…
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will be supporting the the 2012 “Doodle 4 Google” contest by exhibiting the Texas state finalists’ drawings this summer. The annual competition invites students…
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Bandele Tyehimba, owner of Pan African Connection, an African art gallery and meeting place for progressive organizations in South Dallas, has died. The 58-year old gallerist and activist went to…
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There are few times that I complain about living in Mexico. There are even fewer things that bother me about living here. Generally, I love everything about the country and…
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UT Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art has appointed Molly Hasie Sherman as Director of Development effective April 1. A University of Texas alum, Sherman has twenty years of fundraising experience,…
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A 30-minute PBS documentary on the newly completed Asia Society Texas Center building is in the works. Houston PBS is producing the video, the third in their “Houston Arts” series,…
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The Houston Public Library is taking submissions for its 4th annual Teen Film Festival. With cash prizes for the best short documentary, music video, animation and seven other categories (including…